Kathleen Harrison

Birthday: February 23rd, 1892 Date of Death: December 7th, 1995

Kathleen Harrison was long a stalwart of British cinema.   Her place was

always firmly below stairs – a cook perhaps, or a cleaning lady often

answering the door with a puzzled expression always fearful that trouble

was just around the corner.   She was born in 1892 in Blackburn in

Lancashire.   She studied at RADA and then went to live in Agentina for

some time.   On her return to Britain, she made her stage debut in 1926

in “The Constant Flirt”.   Her first major film role was in 1931 in

“Hobson’s Choice”.   Kathleen Harrison made one film in Hollywood in

Emlyn Williams “Night Must Fall” in 1937 as a maid (naturally).   She

achieved national fame as Mrs Huggett in four films about the Huggett

family.   In the mid 1960′s she starred in a very popular television

series Mrs Thursday about a cleaner who won the football pools.   She

died in 1995 at the age of 103.